Chapter 145: Introducing Someone
Mid-March.
A month had passed since Fang Yun obtained eighteen catties of Lower Grade Profound Crystal.
Over the past month, he had spent a significant amount of time on the Spirit Pattern Compendium and had nearly finished studying it.
He had also gathered some supplementary materials for refining Spiritual Artifacts from the Disciple Marketplace.
Before long, he would be refining the first Lower Grade Spiritual Artifact of his life.
Fang Yun planned to begin refining the Spiritual Artifact before the end of the month.
At the beginning-of-the-month settlement, he had only received a little over seven thousand Talent Points, the lowest amount he’d gotten in months.
This was mainly due to how he had allocated his time.
Despite only receiving a little over seven thousand Talent Points, his leftover points from the previous month were just 16 shy of a thousand.
So, at the start of the month, he drew for a Combat Talent a total of eight times.
Among them, he pulled three fragments for his Shield Talent.
He was now only two fragments away from upgrading his Shield Talent to a three-star Combat Talent.
For his other two Combat Talents, he pulled the same number of fragments for his Sword Type Talent as he did for the Shield Talent, but only two for his Shoe Talent.
The lead in Shield Talent fragments, combined with his greater proficiency in refining Upper Grade shield-type Magical Artifacts, were all reasons why Fang Yun chose to make a shield his first Spiritual Artifact.
Even before starting the refining process, he had already decided on a name for the Lower Grade shield-type Spiritual Artifact.
It would be called the Profound Crystal Shield!
He was sticking with the simple method of naming it after its main Spiritual Material.
Profound Crystal could be considered an upgraded version of Profound Iron, as the two shared many similarities.
This allowed Fang Yun to better apply his experience from refining the Profound Iron Shield to the Profound Crystal Shield, thereby increasing his chances of success.
’Right on time.’
Fang Yun glanced at the sky outside and closed the book in his hands.
He had just finished absorbing and refining an Upper Grade Qi Enhancement Pill, and with some time to spare, he had read for a while.
This afternoon, he had plans to meet Wu Junxin at the Smoke Cloud Pavilion on Smoke Cloud Peak to enjoy some Spiritual Food.
Enjoying the Spiritual Food was a secondary objective; the main purpose was for Wu Junxin to introduce someone to him.
Wu Junxin had said that he would surely be interested in this Inner Sect Disciple.
And when Wu Junxin gave a brief description of this Inner Sect Disciple, Fang Yun was indeed as interested as Wu Junxin had predicted.
Yang Yingjie, whose current strength was at the Ninth Layer of Qi Refining.
Yang Yingjie was active outside the Celestial Cloud Sect year-round. When he returned, all he did was cultivate to raise his cultivation level, not even participating in the recent Inner Sect Grand Competition.
In his own words, if he didn’t have the ability to place in the top four, participating was a waste of time. Furthermore, he had little interest in Magical Combat with his fellow disciples, and that included sparring.
This senior brother from the Inner Sect certainly had character.
Of course, Fang Yun’s interest in him wasn’t because of his personality, but because he spent his years carrying out missions outside the sect.
Considering how frequently Yang Yingjie went out on missions and was still alive and well, he was definitely no simple character. And being outside the sect year-round, he must have a wealth of information to share.
Fang Yun left his residence.
Before heading to Smoke Cloud Peak, he first made a trip to the D Zone of the Outer Sect disciples’ residences, having already calculated the travel time into his schedule.
Whenever he had the chance to go to the Smoke Cloud Pavilion, Fang Yun would always invite the little girl, Huang Mengzhu.
This time, Wu Junxin was treating. Fang Yun had naturally cleared it with him about possibly bringing Huang Mengzhu along. Upon hearing this, Wu Junxin had waved his hand magnanimously, telling him it was no problem to bring whomever he wanted; the treat was on him.
He had only said "possibly."
Fang Yun couldn’t be sure if the little girl would actually be at her residence when he went to find her.
If she wasn’t there, she would unfortunately have to miss this opportunity.
When he knocked on the door, someone quickly came to open it.
"Brother Fang Yun!" the little girl exclaimed the moment she saw him.
Before Fang Yun could say a word, the little girl continued.
"I can’t believe you’re so amazing, Brother Fang Yun! Not many senior brothers and sisters could beat you in the Inner Sect Grand Competition."
"Oh? Who told you that?"
A little over a month ago, Fang Yun had been passing through the Outer Sect’s D Zone and had stopped by to see Huang Mengzhu.
At the time, the little girl hadn’t known about the Inner Sect Grand Competition.
And Fang Yun hadn’t brought it up.
At her current stage, it wasn’t something Huang Mengzhu needed to worry about. What she needed to do now was focus on her cultivation and cherish the three-year welfare period for new disciples.
In another three and a half months, Huang Mengzhu’s welfare period would be over.
"Senior Sister Qu who lives nearby... She also told me she’s one of your supporters..." Huang Mengzhu repeated everything the senior sister with the surname Qu had said, holding nothing back.
After listening to Huang Mengzhu’s explanation, Fang Yun understood.
When he had dropped by to see Huang Mengzhu early last month, this junior sister from the Outer Sect with the surname Qu must have noticed him as he was leaving. Shortly after, she had gone to find Huang Mengzhu.
"...Senior Sister Qu said she was your supporter, Brother Fang Yun, but when she tried to ask for information about you, I didn’t tell her anything."
"Hahaha, you did well," Fang Yun said, patting Huang Mengzhu’s little head in praise.
He didn’t see any problem with a fellow junior sister wanting to know more about him. It wouldn’t have been a big deal even if Huang Mengzhu had told her what she knew, but it was good that Huang Mengzhu was so mindful.
The little girl was overjoyed at being praised by Fang Yun.
She actually quite liked that Senior Sister Qu. It was thanks to her that she had learned so much news about Brother Fang Yun within the sect.
Brother Fang Yun never brought these things up himself.
And the senior and junior sisters she knew now were all new disciples like her, having joined the sect just over two years ago.
For disciples like them, their daily routine consisted of cultivating and resting, as well as attending lessons from the Stewards on the fundamentals of cultivation. The content of these lessons never included recent events within the sect.
At most, they would tell stories about new disciples from the past who ran into problems with their cultivation because they didn’t listen to advice.
"I’ve been so busy talking. Brother Fang Yun, come in and sit down."
They had been standing at the doorway this whole time.
"I won’t come in today. I’m here to take you to the Smoke Cloud Pavilion."
"The Smoke Cloud Pavilion!" The little girl’s eyes lit up, and she couldn’t help but swallow. "...Um, Brother Fang Yun, is today a special occasion?"
The last few times they had gone to the Smoke Cloud Pavilion, it had been either her birthday or Fang Yun’s.
"It’s not a special day. A senior brother is treating, and when I asked if I could bring you along, he agreed," Fang Yun explained. Then, remembering something, he added, "You’ve met this senior brother before. He’s the one we saw the first time we went to the Smoke Cloud Pavilion."
"Oh, it’s him."
The little girl thought back and remembered him clearly.
Her first visit to the Smoke Cloud Pavilion had left such a deep impression that she had also remembered what Wu Junxin looked like.
"Let’s get going."
As he spoke, Fang Yun crouched down.
Only by running with Huang Mengzhu on his back could they reach the Smoke Cloud Pavilion by the appointed time.
"Here we go!"